Angry Birds All Levels, Inked Art of Every Finger Swipe Needed to Complete the Game
Justin Page, laughingsquid.com

Angry Birds All Lev­els is a 300-sheet ink on trac­ing paper design by inter­ac­tion design­er Evan Roth that dis­plays every fin­ger swipe and screen press need­ed to com­plete the pop­u­lar Angry Birds video game on a hand­held device. It…

Angry Birds installation and video

Trotify, A Wooden Device That Makes Your Bike Clop Like a Horse
Rusty Blazenhoff, laughingsquid.com

Mount one of these wood­en Tro­ti­fy devices on the front of your bike and it will make it clop like a horse, Monty Python-style. Invent­ed by the folks at Orig­i­nal Con­tent Lon­don, this laser-cut device arrives flat, and requires a coconut for…

Trotify

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You by Urs Fischer

You by Urs Fischer

Euthenasia Rollercoaster

In Pictures: Death comes to the Wellcome Collection
By Culture24 Reporter, culture24.org.uk

From prints by Rem­brandt, Dürer and Goya and intri­cate anatom­i­cal draw­ings to instal­la­tions on Mex­i­co’s kalei­do­scop­ic Day of the Dead and a group of Incan skulls, Death is Richard Har­ris’ col­lec­tion of 300 works from a col­lec­tion…

Death to the Wellcome Collection

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Works by Javier Riera

Javier Riera’s projections

Mesmerizing Slit-Scan Distorted Dance Video
EDW Lynch, laughingsquid.com

This mes­mer­iz­ing dis­tort­ed video of two peo­ple danc­ing was cre­at­ed two years ago by French art stu­dio Adrien M / Claire B. The syrupy move­ment of the dancers is an exam­ple of the slit-scan pho­to­graph­ic process (anoth­er exam­ple is …

So much more could be done with this. Slit scan “dance” video. http://flpbd.it/1aj3j

Ten Principles of Good Design Poster: Bibliothéque and Vitsœ present an illustrative guide to Dieter Rams’ brilliant thinking
James Thorne, coolhunting.com

End­less­ly quot­ed by design­ers and edu­ca­tors, Dieter Rams’ Ten Prin­ci­ples of Good Design has remained a bench­mark for cre­ative think­ing since the leg­endary design­er released the procla­ma­tion in the early ‘80s. In an homage to the lis…

An illustrative guide to Dieter Rams’ 10 design Principles http://flpbd.it/vM45C

Jokes, Improv & John Cage
Erskine Design, frieze.com

John Cage’s audi­ences often felt they were being laughed at. In one 1963 inter­view, this accu­sa­tion is made repeat­ed­ly, in a series of increas­ing­ly point­ed and sus­pi­cious ques­tions about Cage’s worth as a com­pos­er. The con­ver­sa­tio…

From 4'33" to Stewart Lee – jokes, improv and the centenary of John Cage’s birth: http://flpbd.it/NP5o7

Apple Reveals New Version of iBooks & iBooks Author
By Jason Boog on October 23, 2012 3:23 PM, mediabistro.com

Along­side the long-expected iPad Mini, Apple revealed a new ver­sion of iBooks today, count­ing 400 mil­lion eBook down­loads since the launch of iBooks.

App­News­er has more: “The new ver­sion has con­tin­u­ous scrolling, is bet­ter inte­grat­…

New Version of iBooks & iBooks Author

Zuckerberg: The games ecosystem is growing

Zynga kills 13 games, proposes closure of UK and Japan offices
develop-online.net

Social games giant stream­lin­ing oper­a­tions to ‘make Zynga into an inter­net trea­sure’

Zynga kills 13 games, proposes closure of UK and Japan offices

People simply empty out
Shaun Usher, lettersofnote.com

In 1969, pub­lish­er John Mar­tin offered to pay Charles Bukows­ki $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one con­di­tion: that he quit his job at the post office and become a writer. 49-year-old Bukows­ki did just that, and in 197…

Bukowski - people empty out

Ian McEwan claims the novella is better than the novel
telegraph.co.uk

At Cheltenham Festival this weekend, the writer of Atonement claimed the short-form novella is more superior than the novel.

Book­er prize-win­ning author Ian McE­wan believes the novel­la is the supe­ri­or lit­er­ary form to the…

Ian McEwan on the novella

Roll with it: roller derby 2012 championships - behind the scenes video | Travel
guardian.co.uk

Roller derby was created in Chicago in the 1930s but Austin, Texas, is the home of the modern-day, all-female sport. We go behind the scenes on the day of the 2012 championship for the low-down on the teams, the crowds and the on-track pillow fights

Roller derby

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